Virginia Soldiers Home land title dispute and Confederate Memorial move
A Virginia case reviews title to Soldiers' Home property amid a potential transfer to the Confederate Memorial Association. The discussion traces earlier suits, the 1894 Supreme Court ruling, and Judge Barton's Virginia Decisions analysis on corporate power to alienate land and possible state interests or annuities supporting a memorial site.
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Mhond
M. Robinson
Commonwealth
Ted
Confed- Memorial Institute
H. Wythe Davis
Lae
Awyers
Virginia Su- Court
Board of Visitors
West End
Dr. Davis
Soldiers’ Home Realty
Nho
Chancery Court
W. S&s
Supreme Court
Barton
Virginia
Confederate Memorial Association
Memorial Institute
Americans Fight IX Rebels Army at Juarez Front
American volunteers and discharged U S soldiers fought with Mexican insurgents near Juarez as Federals strengthened outposts. Officers report several former U S servicemen among the insurgents including Jacob Hays and Lawrence F Convers, with patrols on the Arizona side. Mines planted by Mexican forces threaten further clashes.
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Citer
Juarez
James Torces
Hisade
Wrogeoes
Jacob Hays
Twenty-third United States Infantry
Fort Bliss
Lawrence F. Convers
Glendora
Cal
Schuyler
Arizona
Douglas
Col
Fires On Friend Who Held Him Up
OMOUND VA May Bruce of Meherrin Pee Hospital in serious condition from a bullet wound inflicted by Cashier Kaufman of Meherrin Bank. Bruce and Kaufman were friends. Bruce attempted a bank robbery prank, Kaufman shot him as he demanded keys, Bruce fell and was transported for treatment.
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Omound
Bruce
Meherrin Pee Hospital
Kaufman
Meherrin
Veet
Fragmentary note at heart base suggests hidden detail
A brief, unclear text fragment appears to touch on the base near the heart and an element beneath the skin, offering few concrete details or identifiable subjects. The reader is left with an incomplete sense of the topic or events described.
Steamer Delayed By Weavy Weather In Newport News
Special report says the Dominion night steamer Brendon from Richmond did not arrive by 4 AM and is feared aground or involved in an accident due to heavy fog. It is claimed the vessel tied up at Carl's Neck and later resumed movement. no danger reported by dawn.
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WEAVY
Newport News
OM Dominion
Brendon
Richmond
James Hiver
Carl’s Neck
Fear spreads of bubonic plague in the East
In St Petersburg officials warn Russia may mobilize to defend frontiers from plague spillover from Manchuria and China. Dispatches from Pekin report outbreak in the inner city with multiple fatalities and inoculations. Chinese censorship suppresses plague news as danger rises.
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ST. Petersburg
Russia
Manchuria
China
Stolypin
East
Pekin
Miss Gould Weds Major Hosley-Beresford in New York
Miss Helen Vivien Gould daughter of George Gould and Jay Gould's granddaughter married Major John Graham Hope Hosley-Beresford DSO fifth Baron Decies at St Bartholomew Church New York. The ceremony was led by Bishop Greer with Rev Dr Parks. Lord and Lady Decies depart for Egypt after a brief honeymoon while a new Gould romance unfolds with Jay Gould Jr and Anna Graham.
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New York
Helen Vivien Gould
George Gould
Jay Gould
St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church
John Graham Hope Hosley-Beresford
Anthony J. Drexel, Jr
Miss Gould
Lord Decies
Lord
Lady Decies
Vivien Gould
Gould
Jay Gowle
Anna Douglas Graham
Miss Graham
Mr. Gould
Edward Lamp
George E. Wilkinson
Lusitania
Jekyll Island
Georgia
Coronia
Egypt
Women Victors in Mayor's Election in Seattle
In Seattle Washington women voted for the first time in a mayoral race and ousted Mayor Hiram G. Gill. George W. Dilling to take office for the unexpired term after Gill was recalled for his conduct.
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Seattle
Wash
Hiram G. Gill
Gill
George W. Dilling
Missing Omaha student baffles German police
Miss Margaret Damm a 26 year old musical student from Omaha Nebraska vanished January 24. Friends fear self harm rumors but no body found. She told landlady she would go to Westphalia to tell her father in Germany. Her last words warned a letter would astonish.
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Berlin
Margaret Damm
Omaha
Neb
Sutberi Ues
Ambassador Hill
Saltreenings
Miss Damm
Landady
Weat Phalia
Gien
Bowery Writer Owen Kildare Dies at Manhattan State Hospital
Special report from New York says Bowery writer Owen Kildare died Saturday night at Manhattan State Hospital from paresis. His former wife, now Mrs. Charles A. Adams, visited him a day before his death. Kildare was born amid a Catherine Street tenement and endured a troubled childhood before turning to writing.
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New York
Owen Kildare
Bowery
Manhattan State Hospital
Paresis
Charles A. Adams
Ward's Island
Owen Dildare
Catherine
Tim Sullivan
Striking Comparison of Inequality of Taxes in Virginia
The Virginia Tax Commission notes stark disparities in personal property valuations across counties. Grayson County shows absurdly low values for horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, vehicles and instruments, while Portsmouth reportedly reports almost no such items. The commission considers segregating property for taxation, shifting real and personal tax burdens, with state costs covered by licenses and railroads.
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Virginia
Grayson County
Grayson
John Mae Parsons
Portsmouth
Commissioners of the Revenue
State Tax Commission
Douglass .S. Freeman
General Assembly
Virginia Tax Interrogatory
Commonwealth
Me Mamie Roge author rises from rough life to writing fame
The text recalls a man who fought as a prize fighter, worked as a bartender and bouncer, and drank heavily. He learned to read and began writing, later supporting himself by his pen. He married Letta Russell Bogardus of Detroit, had a Seentry child, and his wife obtained an annulment before a second marriage to Lt Cmdr Charles A. Adams.
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Steve Hrodie
Broad Street
Mamie Roge
Letta Russell Bogardus
Detroit
Seentry
Kildare
Wards Island
Charles A. Adams
United States Navy
West
No Serious Fatalities In Memphis Special Train Wreck Near McDonald
After clearing debris from the Memphis special wreck near McDonald station twenty miles from Chattanooga ten persons were injured and taken to a nearby hospital. No deaths were reported in the preliminary assessment.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Memphis
Southern Railway
McDonald Station
Knoxville Engineer Hupmunster Among Train Wreck Victims
Initial reports said engineer Hupmunster of Knoxville was killed in the collision. Governor Hooper's wife and child were aboard the wrecked train but escaped injury. Telegraph wires were down, delaying facts until two wrecking trains arrived and repairs began.
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Hupmunster
Knoxville
Hooper
Mrs Schenk Barred from Wheeling Hotels After Poison Trial
Laura Farnsworth Schenk, recently tried for attempted poisoning of her husband, has been barred from all Wheeling hotels. She found the principal hotel full and could not rent apartments, lamenting that exile from Wheeling seems her only option as locals refuse her lodging.
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Wheeling
W. VA
Laura Farnsworth Schenk
Jury’s Verdict On Death By Own Action In San Francisco
A coroner jury returned a verdict in San Francisco concerning a death judged to be by the deceased’s own action. Details on the case remain limited in the fragment.
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San Francisco
Duel leads to verdict of death by own action
Gustave Postler died after a duel with Saratoga Club Proprietor Ed Kripp. Postler allegedly went to recover gambling losses, won close to $1,000, and was shot. Kripp borrowed a pistol from Policeman Donovan. The coroner's jury ruled Postler killed himself with the last shot.
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Gustave Postler
Ed Kripp
Saratoga Club
Postler
Roulette
Kripp
Donovan
Wealthy stockmen die in Washoe blizzard tragedy
In deep snows at county outskirts four of Washo county's wealthiest stockmen perished in a blizzard. The victims are Hardy Cambron George Indianio Frank Lexague and Peter Errasmospe. Cambron belonged to the Humphrey Cambron Cattle Company.
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Reno, Nev
Washo County
Cambron
George Indianio
Frank Lexague
Peter Errasmospe
Humphrey- Cambron Cattle Company
Man Who Threatened Sir Thomas Fined Twentyfive Dollars
Landon Frederick Weldon, who recently threatened to kill Sir Thomas Lipton with a razor unless given money, was sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine or serve a month in jail.
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Sir Thomas
Landon
Frederick Weldon
Sir As Lipton
Glass Attacks Taft Canadian Trade Pact Aims
Congressman Carter Glass of Virginia lashes the Taft Canadian trade agreement in the Democratic caucus charging it favors New England manufacturers and harms American farmers. He faults the print paper and wood pulp clause likening it to the Payne Aldrich tariff and questions the pact’s amendability.
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Washington
D. C
Carter Glass
Virginia
New England
Maine
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Glass
United States
Congress
McCauil
Founder of Red Cross Society Ill in Maryland
Miss Clara Barton founder and longtime president of the National Red Cross Society in the United States was seriously ill at her Glen Echo Maryland home. A letter from her nephew Stephen E Barton to friends in Oxford says she showed unexpected gain and doctors believe the illness should not have serious effects.
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Boston
Mass
Clara Barton
National Red Cross Society
United States
Glen Echo
Stephen E. Barton
Oxford
Miss Barton
Submarine Seal Labeled Largest In U S Navy Launched
Newport News ships launch of the Seal marks the largest and most powerful U S submarine to date. Miss Marjorie Lake christens the vessel built by Newport News Shipbuilding. Seal measures 161 feet, 13 foot beam, 525 ton submerged displacement with six torpedo tubes and ten torpedoes, diving compartment for cable work, cruising radius 2500 knots surfaced, 14 knots surface speed, 9.5 knots submerged. Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting to command.
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Newport News
United States Navy
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Marjorie Lake
Bridgeport
Conn
Kenneth Whiting
Seui
Guy Bruce Shot by Friend in Meherrin Bank Incident
Guy Bruce of Meherrin Virginia was mistaken for an approaching attacker and shot by his friend I E Kauffman near the Bank of Meherrin. He was wounded near the heart, underwent bullet removal, and remains in critical condition at Memorial Hospital Richmond.
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Richmond
Guy Bruce
Meherrin
Bank of
Kauffman
Bruce
Kaufzman
Rescue Team Reaches Mine After Explosive Blast
A rescue party with life saving gear and doctors reached Cokedale eight miles away from Trinidad Colorado early today to search the Carbon Coal and Coke Company mine for entombed workers after a severe explosion last night. The team entered with oxygen helmets but found no trace of the night shift men, and returned to the surface.
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Trinidad
Col
Cokedale
Carbon Coal and Coke Company
Eee Shaft
Archbishop Ryan Death Report Delayed Recall
Philadelphia special report states Archbishop Ryan’s doctors noted further improvement but chose not to inform him of Bishop Whittaker’s death. The decision reflects sensitivity to his condition amid ongoing medical updates.
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Philadelphia
Ryan
Aged prelate complains of insufficient meals and restricted letters
Whittaker for the present. They were close friends. The aged prelate complained today that he was not given enough to eat. He had not yet been allowed to read any but the most im age letters and telegrams sent to
Taft not threatening extra session over reciprocity treaty
Washington The president is not threatening an extra session over the clan reciprocity treaty. Senators Carter and Crane said Taft favors enacting the treaty this session. Rumors of a looming extra session were deemed sensational and misread by the Capitol.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
Carter
Crane
White House
Descendant of Macbeth Dies in London Earl Cawdor
Special report notes the death in London of Earl Cawdor aged sixty three. Once first lord of the arm and a leading Great Britain railroad figure he was a descendant of Macbeth Thane of Cawder. He served as a member of the Prince of Wales household and headed the Great Western Railroad for years.
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London
Earl_ Cawdor
the Arm
Great Britain
Macbeth Thane
Cawder
Shakespeare
United Kingdom
Prince of Wales
Great Western Railroad
Mule and Wagon Sink in Mud on Main Street
In Richmond Virginia yesterday a mule pulling a light wagon sank deep into mud on Main Street below Meadow. The animal struggled as a bystander Meade jumped in to help, both nearly sinking. A pliable rafter and solid earth saved them. the mule sustained leg injuries. Street flooding and torn-up blocks from recent water sewer work worsened the hazard and traffic was unsafe.
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Richmond
George Meade
Main Street
Meadow
Meade
Vine
China
Rowland
Four Die in Gas Pact Between Parents and Children
In New York a family ended their lives and those of their two children to escape poverty after the father a former Brooklyn trainer and the mother entered a death pact. Police found the four bodies in their apartment with a note blaming poverty for the act.
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Seanagg
Rank Barnard
Twenty-third Regiment
Brooklyn
Mat- Ue
Ebror Y
Cnts
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